HildaMarin
HildaMarin t1_je7upic wrote
Reply to comment by Alwayssunnyinarizona in The Emotional Lives and Personalities of Backyard Chickens - A review of Under the Henfluence: Inside the World of Backyard Chickens and the People Who Love Them by lnfinity
Only seen it ten times so far!
HildaMarin t1_je7un1x wrote
Reply to The Emotional Lives and Personalities of Backyard Chickens - A review of Under the Henfluence: Inside the World of Backyard Chickens and the People Who Love Them by lnfinity
Amazing thanks!
Chicken sentience: a bold and audacious claim I am behind.
HildaMarin t1_je2zuqm wrote
Reply to When do you consider a book 'read'? by Penrod_Pooch
If you told me you read it and later I found out these shocking details I would not be shocked and be okay. If you said you read it all or such then I'd feel it was misrepresented ... in the hypothetical universe where anything like this conversation takes place.
HildaMarin t1_jdiydsv wrote
Reply to comment by machobiscuit in I read Finnegan's Wake so you don't have to by machobiscuit
Exactly 100%
No one should ever be forced to read this sort of thing. You need to hear about it, look it to it, possibly train for it, do it, then you have something you can talk about with a small number of similarly minded people who become instant friends.
HildaMarin t1_jdiy795 wrote
Reply to comment by GraniteGeekNH in I read Finnegan's Wake so you don't have to by machobiscuit
This would make a great short video!
HildaMarin t1_jdil41x wrote
Reply to comment by GraniteGeekNH in I read Finnegan's Wake so you don't have to by machobiscuit
Never give up. This sounds like a good bucket list goal.
HildaMarin t1_jdikih9 wrote
> It's like listening to a radio in the mountains with bad reception and constantly changing the channels, you get bits and pieces here and there, a word or phrase here and there...
Love this summary! And if this sounds like tons of fun (it does) then it is worth it and if not, pass for now.
HildaMarin t1_j94iu16 wrote
Reply to comment by AggravatingStudy2084 in My thoughts on “A Series of Unfortunate Events.” by AggravatingStudy2084
Hi, thanks, I did not downvote you FWIW. Anecdote I told matches several friends over my life who disclosed to me step-parent, foster-parent, and mom's-latest-boyfriend you-are-to-call-uncle sexual abuse.
My abuse was of a different nature which I do not really like to get in to. In particular to all the people who keep telling me therapy, spent a lot of money and wasted incredible amounts of time on that and it keeps coming down to that I have to "forgive" them. Yeah, no. I want reform of laws so abusers can legally kill their perps. That's what I want. Legal. Not illegal. And the people who say this means I need more therapy can bleep right off with that abuse. We need legal reform so victims can legally kill their perps. Like in Saudi Arabia where victims have the option to behead those who have wronged them. But with far more judicial review and for real crimes, not that Saudi BS.
HildaMarin t1_j92hctq wrote
I think kids telling an adult that the adult is deluded and has been conned by an obvious fraud and charlatan and abusive manipulator is something that does happen. The reaction, as in these books, is nearly always to deny the child's claims as wrong, fanciful, or spiteful, and to defend the charlatan, and to punish the child.
Talk to any survivor of childhood abuse and they will tell you all the times they reached out to those they trusted that they were punched down. One of the worst situations is telling one's mother they are being abused by their stepfather and the mother takes it as a personal accusation against herself and punishes the child for lying about the mother's heroin addicted or otherwise questionable boyfriend who provides the needy mother with affirmations in return for pedophilic access, a trade.
This capitalistic dynamic I find to be the aspect of these books that is the most realistic detail.
HildaMarin t1_j5xrdaq wrote
Stealing and borrowing!
But for real I check out if I can and if not I buy used if I can afford it (often I can) and if not I forgo.
HildaMarin t1_j1owgdl wrote
Reply to Do you find yourself reading more non-fiction books and less fiction as you get older? by disruptivelychill
I do more nonfiction and history, yes.
HildaMarin t1_je7utqo wrote
Reply to comment by ub3rh4x0rz in The Emotional Lives and Personalities of Backyard Chickens - A review of Under the Henfluence: Inside the World of Backyard Chickens and the People Who Love Them by lnfinity
They believe it is wrong to steal the eggs of the hens.
Me I just make sure the hens are not looking since some do get upset that someone is stealing their eggs. Since they can not count and do not have the sort of memory to keep track of such it's fine and causes no distress to sneak as many eggs as you want. But if they see you taking them it causes distress in some hens who are making some sort of connection.